Bulletin #664
August 28, 2006
Dear All,
The article below is a graphic illustration of how unscrupulous and cynical the “health” authorities have become in the state of New South Wales (Australia) in the methods they are using to get every last remaining village and town in NSW fluoridated. They are playing with democracy like a cat plays with a mouse. This is how they set the “Tenterfield trap.”
Knowing full well that most local councillors neither feel equipped to make the decision to force fluoride on the local community, nor want to take the political heat for doing so, they say “look councillors you can make the decision yourselves or you can let us - (the big guy health authority which knows everything there is to know about the subject) - make the decision for you.”
In Tenterfield the councillors fell for the trap and passed the buck to the state. The people got so mad, when they heard what had happened, that they organized a poll and won a vote against fluoridation….but now read on below to see what happened next.
Reminds me of the former Soviet Union - even in a totalitarian state Stalin had to have the machinery of “show trials” before his political opponents were executed. In the case of NSW it is simply a case of trying to pretend to people they still have democracy when in actual fact the bureaucrats have ripped it from them.
What makes this state action even more reprehensible is that the “health” authorities in NSW show no evidence of diligently studying the health issues involved in this and are pathetically unwilling to even debate the issue in public. When I was there they refused to debate me in the NSW parliament (debate organized by a Green party MP) or at any of several other venues (including Tenterfield) citizens organized around the state.
Paul Connett
PS Don’t forget to sign the ONLINE letter to Harvard at http://actionstudio.org/?go=2413 and view the Boston FOX TV news story on the Harvard cover-up. http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=664746&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1 We need this on the national FOX network - any one got any good contacts for the Fox network?
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Mayor says fluoride not a council decision
Monday, 28 August 2006
DESPITE what has been reported, Mayor of Tenterfield Shire Toby Smith says that the council has never voted in favour of fluoridation of the town water supply.
But it didn’t vote against it originally either. On March 17, 2005 the council voted to refer the question of fluoridating the water supply to the Director-General of NSW Health, to continue the public consultation process and make the decision to either proceed with fluoridation or not, in accordance with Clause 16A of the Fluoridation of the Public Water Supplies Act of 1957.
After the November 2005 Poll, Council resolved “to advise the NSW Department of Health that it withdraws its referral to have the Department decide on the fluoridation of the Tenterfield Water Supply and Council’s official position having considered the results of the Poll is that it does not want to have fluoride added to the Tenterfield Water Supply.”
Council was subsequently advised by the Minister that there was no mechanism in the legislation for Council to change its decision of March 17, 2005.
Council then received the direction from the Director-General of Health to add fluoride to the water supply by July 2007.
Councillor Smith said, “Council last week reluctantly agreed to the direction as the majority of Councillors recognised that the State Government had made its decision and we do not have the power to override it.
“I stress, the final decision was made by the NSW State Government and not the Council. Councillors do not intentionally make decisions to upset the community. A lot of these unpopular decisions are from a requirement to confirm with State and Federal Government legislation or directives.”
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